I've been trying for the past 3 hours to get the Pre-RC1 of Vista to install.
I first tried to upgrade my Vista Beta 2 installation by booting the the DVD
(like you would with XP) but was informed that I would actually have to
launch the installer from within Beta 2 to do so. So I exited, logged into
Beta 2, and upon my attempt to upgrade, I received the following error:

"Windows cannot install the required files. The file may be corrupt or
missing. Make sure all files for installation are available, and restart the
installation. Error code: 0x80070017"

I thought maybe there was a problem upgrading, so I attempted a custom
installation to the Beta 2 partition from the installer launched from withing
Beta 2, as well as by booting to the DVD, and launching from my XP SP2
Partition, and received the same error each time. I burned the DVD as slowly
as my burner would support, to make sure this type of error did not occur...

Does anyone have any thoughts?

Sorry for the double post, the system told me it wasn't received.
Apparently, today is my day for errors...

"Eric Solomon" wrote:

I've been trying for the past 3 hours to get the Pre-RC1 of Vista to install.
I first tried to upgrade my Vista Beta 2 installation by booting the the DVD
(like you would with XP) but was informed that I would actually have to
launch the installer from within Beta 2 to do so. So I exited, logged into
Beta 2, and upon my attempt to upgrade, I received the following error:

"Windows cannot install the required files. The file may be corrupt or
missing. Make sure all files for installation are available, and restart the
installation. Error code: 0x80070017"

I thought maybe there was a problem upgrading, so I attempted a custom
installation to the Beta 2 partition from the installer launched from withing
Beta 2, as well as by booting to the DVD, and launching from my XP SP2
Partition, and received the same error each time. I burned the DVD as slowly
as my burner would support, to make sure this type of error did not occur...

Does anyone have any thoughts?

Hi Eric,

It sounds to me like you have a corrupted DVD. I have installed by booting
from CD several times (including once on Saturday and once today). Try
burning the DVD again and see if that works!

M
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MCSA (2003), MCSA (2000), MCDST.
Certified Small Business Specialist
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"Eric Solomon" wrote:

Sorry for the double post, the system told me it wasn't received.
Apparently, today is my day for errors...

"Eric Solomon" wrote:

I've been trying for the past 3 hours to get the Pre-RC1 of Vista to install.
I first tried to upgrade my Vista Beta 2 installation by booting the the DVD
(like you would with XP) but was informed that I would actually have to
launch the installer from within Beta 2 to do so. So I exited, logged into
Beta 2, and upon my attempt to upgrade, I received the following error:

"Windows cannot install the required files. The file may be corrupt or
missing. Make sure all files for installation are available, and restart the
installation. Error code: 0x80070017"

I thought maybe there was a problem upgrading, so I attempted a custom
installation to the Beta 2 partition from the installer launched from withing
Beta 2, as well as by booting to the DVD, and launching from my XP SP2
Partition, and received the same error each time. I burned the DVD as slowly
as my burner would support, to make sure this type of error did not occur...

Does anyone have any thoughts?

My advice is to forget any build whichever it is 5536 etc. pre-RC1--go onto
installing the milestone build RC1 and see what you think is the hand that
MSFT has dealt you as they rush to RTM internally about October 25. I'm
afraid I cannot stop them and will have to just relegate my wanting Jim
Allchin and his brain trust to take 6 more months to good ideas (to me)
that aren't going to happen.

1) Eric any of us who have had some bumps along the way installing Vista
feel your pain but before you spend much more time--and I hate to retreat
from any struggle from my boxes who become human adversaries in times like
these--right now MSFT has posted the download of RC1 for the CPP --they've
been sending emails to the prior CPP participants in stages, and I supsect
after some time for them to download, they will open the Product keys up to
the rest of the people who want to use them.

2) So instead of whatever build is pre-RC1 to you, I'd focuse efforts on
RC1. I don't know what keys your using, but maybe you have the correct key
to use.

3) Don't upgrade from a previous Vista Beta. I'm not saying you can't, but
after all there is still debugged code and there are pitfalls so clean up a
drive and install Vista as a non-upgrade. I'll stay away from the
metaphysical, epistemological discussions about every install of Vista being
clean as a whistle. I understand but recommend you don't upgrade from the
Beta to Beta or from a Beta to RTM even though I'm sure you could make any
scenario happen. Give yourself maximal chance so you can spend more time
enjoying Vista, comparing it to your take on Beta 2 and really drill the
features and read up on them. There are a lot of very well done sites now
with fine info, and plenty of great stuff on the MSDN and Technet blogs on
Vista as deep as you might want to dive as they say.

4) If you are on SATA or RAID make sure that you install the appropriate
drivers early in setup after the PK is requested.

5) If you're going to dual boot, try to install within XP with XP on the box
first. If that does not complete, then restart.

6) Use the Akami server download I've provided that MSFT is offering. It's
very fast--I tested it a couple weeks ago when they opened up 5536 although
I already had it to see what the download speeds were with Akami.

http://www.akamai.com/en/html/misc/support_faq.html

32 bit RC1 MSFT Akami Server download

http://download.windowsvista.com/pre...fre_en_dvd.iso


64 Bit RC1 MSFT Akami Server download

http://download.windowsvista.com/pre...fre_en_dvd.iso

1) Burn slowly. 4X should be fine. Some of this probably varies with
theDVD writer and the media.

2) Make sure to select an ISO tab if there is one on the burning software,
and make sure to close the session on the burn.

3)Try this tweak on your Windows XP drive and burn from the

Get to Dev Manager by typing devmgmt.msc in run/win key + pause break or
Rt.click My ComputerProphardware tabDevice Manager if you like 5 steps
instead of one cmd. If you're set to PMI here change to DMO and if set to
DMO change to PMI using these 5 steps:

1) Click the + in front of IDE ATA/ATAPI Controllers

2) Double Click the Secondary IDE Controller

3) Click Advanced Settings

4) Under Device 1  Next to Transfer Mode choose DMA (or vise versa)Click
OK

5) Reboot your System

6) Check your download with the CRC hashes here and read the post release
RC1 notes.


Signatures of the ISO files:
32-Bit
MD5 hash: 22486e815a38feffd9667317dfeec55a
SHA1 hash: e00b4ebbc81fb420cf047973b95a9cfb7cdf51b7
64-Bit
MD5 hash: f3a385aae6e4dea9226e31d9f1148b56
SHA1 hash: 8e4de7a72c828a3543ff1663243eb0836da07eea

When you start to burn the iso, check the box that says validate the burn
when through.

*Definitely read the post RC1 release notes--in deference to the boys and
girls at Redmond MSFT they're not the usual "yada yada" as Google is wont to
say.

Post Release notes Vista RC1

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...DisplayLang=en

Good luck,

CH



"Eric Solomon" wrote in message
...
I've been trying for the past 3 hours to get the Pre-RC1 of Vista to
install.
I first tried to upgrade my Vista Beta 2 installation by booting the the
DVD
(like you would with XP) but was informed that I would actually have to
launch the installer from within Beta 2 to do so. So I exited, logged
into
Beta 2, and upon my attempt to upgrade, I received the following error:

"Windows cannot install the required files. The file may be corrupt or
missing. Make sure all files for installation are available, and restart
the
installation. Error code: 0x80070017"

I thought maybe there was a problem upgrading, so I attempted a custom
installation to the Beta 2 partition from the installer launched from
withing
Beta 2, as well as by booting to the DVD, and launching from my XP SP2
Partition, and received the same error each time. I burned the DVD as
slowly
as my burner would support, to make sure this type of error did not
occur...

Does anyone have any thoughts?

Did you ever solve this problem?

-Thomas

"Eric Solomon" wrote:

I've been trying for the past 3 hours to get the Pre-RC1 of Vista to install.
I first tried to upgrade my Vista Beta 2 installation by booting the the DVD
(like you would with XP) but was informed that I would actually have to
launch the installer from within Beta 2 to do so. So I exited, logged into
Beta 2, and upon my attempt to upgrade, I received the following error:

"Windows cannot install the required files. The file may be corrupt or
missing. Make sure all files for installation are available, and restart the
installation. Error code: 0x80070017"

I thought maybe there was a problem upgrading, so I attempted a custom
installation to the Beta 2 partition from the installer launched from withing
Beta 2, as well as by booting to the DVD, and launching from my XP SP2
Partition, and received the same error each time. I burned the DVD as slowly
as my burner would support, to make sure this type of error did not occur...

Does anyone have any thoughts?

Did you ever solve this problem?

-Thomas

"Eric Solomon" wrote:

I've been trying for the past 3 hours to get the Pre-RC1 of Vista to install.
I first tried to upgrade my Vista Beta 2 installation by booting the the DVD
(like you would with XP) but was informed that I would actually have to
launch the installer from within Beta 2 to do so. So I exited, logged into
Beta 2, and upon my attempt to upgrade, I received the following error:

"Windows cannot install the required files. The file may be corrupt or
missing. Make sure all files for installation are available, and restart the
installation. Error code: 0x80070017"

I thought maybe there was a problem upgrading, so I attempted a custom
installation to the Beta 2 partition from the installer launched from withing
Beta 2, as well as by booting to the DVD, and launching from my XP SP2
Partition, and received the same error each time. I burned the DVD as slowly
as my burner would support, to make sure this type of error did not occur...

Does anyone have any thoughts?

(I hope you don't get this several times, as the server is saying that my
post failed...)

Did you ever solve this problem?

-Thomas

"Eric Solomon" wrote:

I've been trying for the past 3 hours to get the Pre-RC1 of Vista to install.
I first tried to upgrade my Vista Beta 2 installation by booting the the DVD
(like you would with XP) but was informed that I would actually have to
launch the installer from within Beta 2 to do so. So I exited, logged into
Beta 2, and upon my attempt to upgrade, I received the following error:

"Windows cannot install the required files. The file may be corrupt or
missing. Make sure all files for installation are available, and restart the
installation. Error code: 0x80070017"

I thought maybe there was a problem upgrading, so I attempted a custom
installation to the Beta 2 partition from the installer launched from withing
Beta 2, as well as by booting to the DVD, and launching from my XP SP2
Partition, and received the same error each time. I burned the DVD as slowly
as my burner would support, to make sure this type of error did not occur...

Does anyone have any thoughts?

(I hope you don't get this several times, as the server is saying that my
post failed...)

Did you ever solve this problem?

-Thomas

"Eric Solomon" wrote:

I've been trying for the past 3 hours to get the Pre-RC1 of Vista to install.
I first tried to upgrade my Vista Beta 2 installation by booting the the DVD
(like you would with XP) but was informed that I would actually have to
launch the installer from within Beta 2 to do so. So I exited, logged into
Beta 2, and upon my attempt to upgrade, I received the following error:

"Windows cannot install the required files. The file may be corrupt or
missing. Make sure all files for installation are available, and restart the
installation. Error code: 0x80070017"

I thought maybe there was a problem upgrading, so I attempted a custom
installation to the Beta 2 partition from the installer launched from withing
Beta 2, as well as by booting to the DVD, and launching from my XP SP2
Partition, and received the same error each time. I burned the DVD as slowly
as my burner would support, to make sure this type of error did not occur...

Does anyone have any thoughts?

(I hope you don't get this several times, as the server is saying that my
post failed...)

Did you ever solve this problem?

-Thomas


"Eric Solomon" wrote:

I've been trying for the past 3 hours to get the Pre-RC1 of Vista to install.
I first tried to upgrade my Vista Beta 2 installation by booting the the DVD
(like you would with XP) but was informed that I would actually have to
launch the installer from within Beta 2 to do so. So I exited, logged into
Beta 2, and upon my attempt to upgrade, I received the following error:

"Windows cannot install the required files. The file may be corrupt or
missing. Make sure all files for installation are available, and restart the
installation. Error code: 0x80070017"

I thought maybe there was a problem upgrading, so I attempted a custom
installation to the Beta 2 partition from the installer launched from withing
Beta 2, as well as by booting to the DVD, and launching from my XP SP2
Partition, and received the same error each time. I burned the DVD as slowly
as my burner would support, to make sure this type of error did not occur...

Does anyone have any thoughts?

(I hope you don't get this several times, as the server is saying that my
post failed...)

Did you ever solve this problem?

-Thomas


"Eric Solomon" wrote:

I've been trying for the past 3 hours to get the Pre-RC1 of Vista to install.
I first tried to upgrade my Vista Beta 2 installation by booting the the DVD
(like you would with XP) but was informed that I would actually have to
launch the installer from within Beta 2 to do so. So I exited, logged into
Beta 2, and upon my attempt to upgrade, I received the following error:

"Windows cannot install the required files. The file may be corrupt or
missing. Make sure all files for installation are available, and restart the
installation. Error code: 0x80070017"

I thought maybe there was a problem upgrading, so I attempted a custom
installation to the Beta 2 partition from the installer launched from withing
Beta 2, as well as by booting to the DVD, and launching from my XP SP2
Partition, and received the same error each time. I burned the DVD as slowly
as my burner would support, to make sure this type of error did not occur...

Does anyone have any thoughts?